Improved lamp-cleaner



PATENT OEEICE..

BENJAMIN F. HORN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED LAM P-CLEANER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 55.862, dated June 26,1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. HORN, of

Y Boston, in the county ot' Sn'tl'olk and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented an Improved Apparatus for Cleaning Lamp-0himneys and I dohereby declare the same to be fully described in the followingspecification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which--Iiigure l is a side view, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section of it. l l

In the said drawings, A denotes a handle, formed of wood, with a socket,a, in its upper end, and provided with a metallic ferrule, b, arrangedat the said end, and so as to encompass the same. l Within this socket,and so as to project from it as exhibited in the drawings, there isinserted a series of elastic springs, B B B, each of which is curved tothe arc of a circle, or thereabout, and is covered with cotton velvet orother suitable material, the pile when velvet is used being arrangedoutwardly. These springs are held in place within the handle or stock Aby means of a conical plug, C, driven into the socket, waterproof cementbeing' previously applied to such plug, so as to set and fasten it andthe springs in place.

The several springs' are to be connected together at their outer endsand to an elastic spring or loop, D, composed of india-rubber, the saidloop being attached to the springs at their connection with each other.A hook, E, is inserted in and projects from the plug in manner as shown,and is designed to enter the looped spring when the latter is drawn downfor being hitched upon it.

The looped spring is intended to impart to the bow springs or cleanersthe necessary additional elasticity, which may be removed from them byunhitching the looped spring from the hook.

Each ot' the metallic bow-springs may be covered with thread braided onit, or it may be withoutany such covering, the material or velvetapplied to it being a separate or additional covering.

By forcing the series of bow-springs into a glass lamp-chimney andmoving them back and forth and revolving them therein we may cleanse theinterior surface of such chimney.

I make no claim to a chimney-cleaner composed of a handle and a seriesof bowed springs, or the same and a cloth bag or cap applied to all ofthem; but

What I do claim as my invention is- My improved lamp-chimney cleaner asmade with the loop-spring D, or its equivalent, and the hook E, arrangedand combined with thel series of covered bow-springs and the handle,arranged and applied together substantially as specified.

BENJ. F. HORN.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, GEORGE ANDREWS.

